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Cliff Island, Antarctica

island off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5132648 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cliff Island (66°0′S 65°39′W) is a narrow cliffed island at the south side of Mutton Cove, lying immediately south of Upper Island and 8 nautical miles (15 km) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–1937.

See also

List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

This article incorporates public domain material from "Cliff Island, Antarctica". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

Editorial summary

“Cliff Island, Antarctica” enters the record as island off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cliff, Island and Antarctica can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cliff, Island and Antarctica.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Cliff Island, Antarctica” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cliff, Island and Antarctica provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5132648. Authority coordinates are -66.000, -65.650. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934 and 1937.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  2. Expand the search: follow Cliff Island, Antarctica primary sources, Cliff Island, Antarctica archive and Cliff research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Cliff Island, Antarctica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.